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Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History
Engelsk Paperback
Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History
Engelsk Paperback

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The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and quality of global industrialization. While science and technology developed in the West and whereas the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, were vital to this process, the more recent history has been underpinned by the development of comparatively resource- and energy-saving technology, without which the diffusion of industrialization would not have been possible. The labour-intensive, resource-saving path, which emerged in East Asia under the influence of Western technology and institutions, and is diffusing across the world, suggests the most realistic route humans could take for a further diffusion of industrialization, which might respond to the rising expectations of living standards without catastrophic environmental degradation.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
314
ISBN-13:
9781138901148
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1138901148
Udg. Dato:
22 maj 2015
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
234mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
22 maj 2015
Forfatter(e):
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